Christmas Eve
It’s the morning of Christmas Eve in Kuching and it is raining now. A very bright time for a rainy day. I can still feel the heat from the sunlight whilst seeing raindrops rushing and bashing down on the grass and flowers on daddy’s garden.
As usual Christmas will be spent back home in Kuching. Plans for tonight? Not yet plan ah! I’m not sure actually. I didn’t book for any special places, so I guess I’ll be stuck at home for the night.
Today I will announce the retirement of my old camera the Sony Cybershot T33. Well, not really a retirement, but a demotion to him from my only camera, to my secondary helper. Yes, he is still the slimmest in my camera collection, and also one of the most powerful. With it’s powerful Carl Zeiss lens to magnify details, he is still good to go. Bringing this baby to the library to ’steal’ some nice shots is the easiest. Well, glad that this Cybershot has also been with me for a couple of years since my Canon V3 died, when I was in Foundation Year. Still, it is in good condition and I’m still going to use her for some ’secret’ missions.
So, who is it that is going to replace this beautiful and stunning camera? Another Sony? Another Canon? What is it going to be? Well, here’s a hint. It’s a token from my daddy, for having Graduated from College with flying colours + Won some awards + Found an acceptable job + Christmas. All these add together comes a stunning result, my all time dream wishlist, A Digital SLR camera! OMG! And it’s not just an ordinary Digital SLR, it’s a midrange DSLR by Nikon D80 kit. Thanks Daddy!
Let’s see what came with in the set! It comes with a 18-135mm wide lens, 4GBs of high speed memory SD card, A flimsy tripod, A 90 anniversary Nikon heavy duty bag, a UV lens filter and also an LCD screen protector. Looks quite complete for me to start some shootings.
The Nikon D80 has the power of 10.2 megapixels, 11 areas of focusing, pop up flash, and the most interesting things about this Nikon D80, is that noise only appears when you shoot at ISO 1600 & beyond. Now that is so freakin cool! Meaning, this baby can shoot high quality pictures in lowly lit areas. (I haven’t tried it out, but I’m going to test all the features in my coming days.)
The thing I love about Nikon is it’s design of the camera. It seems that the designers for Nikon DSLRs did very good research on this area. I found that the grip of the trigger button seems almost too perfect where it is positioned right now compared to Sony’s and Canon’s. The button is placed in just the right place and feels very comfortable to click on when you are shooting. The shutter speed dial is located behind the trigger, while the aperture dial is positioned in front of the dial. Making it as user friendly as possible. Though this isn’t the latest and newest camera in town, but still I love it very much. Not because it is costly, but it is really a very high-end camera and it came from daddy.
Now to install that lens, charge that battery, on that switch and shoot shoot shoot!! I mean test first la! Ooo-la-la! so handsome ni! Muaks Muaks Muaks!!
Sony Cybershot please don’t look at Nikon D80 like that. I’m not going to abandon you. As long as you can still take those wonderful closeup shots for me, you will still be in my pocket. Now if you’ll excuse me, I’ve got to test it out. BOOM!
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